The Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority has made it clear—to anyone searching its website—that plastic bags are not to be included in mixed recycling materials for collection, as, “they clog the machinery.” Places available for recycling plastic bags appear on that site.

“Transparency and accessibility….ensure accountability of state government… It is especially necessary and in the public’s interest when such conduct concerns matters of public health, safety and welfare, and when the decisions involve the receipt and expenditure of public money.” Governor C…

My reaction to the world-famous "Christie on the beach" picture was different than most people I spoke to. Most people were outraged that the Governor and his clannish entourage had the gall to hog an entire seaside state park to themselves while everyone else was shut out. The long shot fro…

The period leading up to the Fourth of July offers a good time to think about our country and its founders: George Washington, the Signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and the soldiers who served in the Continental Army and the state militias.

America has had a number of bad Presidents. James Buchanan, John Tyler and Warren Harding come to mind. These truly despicable men look like Washington and Lincoln rolled into one compared to Donald Trump.

I suppose the Somerset County-ites should get used to seeing a lot of black-tinted windowed Suburbans cruising around our roads this summer when President Trump moves from the White House into Trump International Golf Club in Bedminster on weekends during the summer.

It was on a wintry evening last March that my faith in humanity was restored. In today’s cultural and political climate of distrust and fear towards one another (succinctly captured in The Irish Times post-election headline “The United Hates of America”), I feel compelled—obligated, really—t…

Members of a nonpartisan coalition, NJ 11th for Change, which is dedicated to “advocating for all citizens of the 11th Congressional District” according to its website, have been gathering weekly to request an audience with their elected representative, the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen.

I posted my last column on Facebook for my friends to read. Within minutes I was a referee, holding the two sides apart from each other, and in particular trying to stop the personal attacks -- aimed at the participants, not Trump or Clinton. Three things struck me about this.